"One day, I will be a poet. Water will depend on my visions."

"The poem is in my hands, and can run stories through her hands."

"I learnt all the words worthy of the court of blood So that I could break the rule I learnt all the words and broke them up To make a single word: Homeland.."

"Where can I free myself of the homeland in my body?"

Where there is life, there is love.

Wherever you are you will always be in my heart.

There are no good-byes, where ever you'll be, you'll be in my heart.

I offer you peace. I offer you love. I offer you friendship. I see your beauty. I hear your need. I feel your feelings.

If I had no sense of humor, I would long ago have committed suicide.

I will not let anyone walk through my mind with their dirty feet.

Nobody can hurt me without my permission.

I'm the one who started redevelopment in South Los Angeles, not Jan Perry. I did it. I love Jan. She's a good person, and she did a wonderful job with what she did downtown, but in L.A., South L.A., I'm the one.

I like to take walks in the park by myself, where no one can bother me and I can think.

I do not have bad days. I don't wake up in the morning and think that I'm going to get AIDS. I don't dream bad dreams about it. If I did, I'd be giving in to the negativity.

I love to be in the ballpark. I love to just go in and enjoy a great baseball game, a great pitchers' duel.

My having HIV has no bearing on my business.

When a woman is frustrated, and it's your wife, you as the husband get that frustration.

The first year was hard for me to deal with. The second year was a little bit easier, but still difficult. It took me five years to get it out of me. It was a difficult moment, a difficult time.

The audience likes their emotions to be touched. They want to laugh and cry and feel good.

Magic is who I am on the basketball court. Earvin is who I am.

I don't care who is attacking my son. I still support him; I still love him.

Athletes don't like to get up early, but it never bothered me.

I like things going on in my life. I don't want to be on a beach somewhere just relaxing.

The best way to hold a man is in your arms.